1960 Born in New York
Currently lives and works in New York.

1985 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York
1982 B.A., Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
1980 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2010
“Glenn Ligon”, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2009
“Glenn Ligon: Off Book”, Regen Projects and Regen Projects II, Los Angeles, CA
“Glenn Ligon: ‘Nobody’ and Other Songs”, Thomas Dane Gallery, London

2008
“Glenn Ligon: Figure/Paysage/Marine”, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
“Glenn Ligon: Love and Theft”, Power House, Memphis, Tennessee

2007
“Glenn Ligon”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2006
“Glenn Ligon: Brilliant Corners”, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
“We Had Everything Before Us, We Had Nothing Before Us”, Yvon Lambert, Paris
“Glenn Ligon”, Grossman Gallery at Lafayette College, Easton, PA,

2005
“Glenn Ligon: Some Changes”, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Museum, Houston, TX
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio
Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Mudam – Foundation Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg

2004
“Text Paintings: 1990 – 2004”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2003
“Going There”, D’Amelio Terras, New York
“Annotations”, Dia Center for the Arts, New York

2002
“Glenn Ligon”, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

2001
Colored, D’Amelio Terras, New York
“Portraits and Not-Portraits”, Kunstverein Munich
“Stranger”, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

2000
“Artist-in-Residendence: Glenn Ligon”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
“Coloring: New Work”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
“Currents 81”, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

1998
“Glenn Ligon: Unbecoming, Institute of Contemporary Art”, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
“Glenn Ligon”, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX

1997
“Glenn Ligon: Day of Absence”, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

1996
“The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Drawings by Glenn Ligon”, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn
“Glenn Ligon: New Work”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

1995
“Photos and Notes”, Max Protech Gallery, New York, Skin Tight, MIT List
Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA Glenn Ligon, Des Moines Art
Center, Des Moines, IA

1994
Project Room, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1993
“Glenn Ligon: to Disembark”, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Travelled: Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Davidson College Art Gallery, Davidson, NC; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS; Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit
“White”, Max Protech Gallery, New York 1993
Good Mirrors Are Not Cheap, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York. Travelled: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1992
“Glenn Ligon”, Max Protech Gallery, New York Glenn Ligon/Matrix 120,
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

1991
“Glenn Ligon”, White Columns, New York, Project Room, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York